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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>,
	Shai Fultheim <shai@scalemp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:59:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091119075958.2cba15f8@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091119081307.GA20534@wotan.suse.de>

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:13:07 +0100
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> My other point was just this, but I don't care too much. But it is
> worded pretty negatively. The key here is that increasing the value
> too large tends to only cost a very small amount of size (and no
> increase in cacheline foot print, only RAM). 

128 has a pretty significant impact on TPC-C benchmarks.....
it was the top issue until mainline fixed it to default to 64


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-19 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-13 11:54 [PATCH] x86: eliminate redundant/contradicting cache line size config options Jan Beulich
2009-11-16  4:14 ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-16  8:08   ` Jan Beulich
2009-11-16 10:56     ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-19  3:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-19  4:52         ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-19  8:13           ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-19  8:38             ` Jan Beulich
2009-11-19 10:00               ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-19 15:59             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-11-19 16:18               ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-19 17:53                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-23  8:34               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-23  9:35                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-23 10:09                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-23 14:52                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-23 15:15                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-11-19  4:42 ` [tip:x86/mm] x86: Eliminate " tip-bot for Jan Beulich

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